Less surprised

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 7/3/06, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 23:35 -0700, JD wrote:
> > Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> > > On 7/2/06, JD <xifilsuf at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > Then why when I use more it works?
> > To pipe it to cat is just redundant.
>
> I think he means type 'cat all* >> ball'. There's no redundancy.

Yes, that's exactly what I mean, Tony.  JD, you're trying to use a two
different pager programs, designed for displaying text on a terminal
for a human being in pages, with a pause in between, to concatenate
files together.  This is what 'cat' is for (in fact, the name 'cat'
comes from 'concantenate').

-- 
Chris

"I trust the Democrats to take away my money, which I can afford.  I
trust the Republicans to take away my freedom, which I cannot."